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Affidavit by Australian Guantanamo Detainee
The allegations in the David Hicks affidavit are shocking, even though we are inured to the steady stream of horrifying claims (some, at least substantiated by…
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a quick hello
i have been neglecting this blog, in part because of the spam, but also because the last month or so has been crazy busy. I'm very excited to be a non-res…
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Supreme Court to Rule on Grokster!
Cert. granted by the Court. 04-480 MGM STUDIOS INC., ET AL. V. GROKSTER, LTD., ET AL. I personally would have preferred the Court to have waited longer to ent…
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Michael Berube Reveals How Conservative Scholars Are Denied Positions in Rhetoric Departments
Berube comes clean... I've been ... damn busy making sure that my department doesn't hire any conservatives this year. We have two positions open in R…
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Women in Power: Iraq v. U.S.
The interim Iraqi constitution requires that a quarter of the legislature to be elected in January must be women. How does this compare with the composition of…
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Becker/Posner--Another Rebuttal
International law giant Thomas M. Franck offers another rebuttal to the Becker/Posner type of argument in his short piece in the Proceedings of the American Soc…
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Safety valves
I came upon a public policy report entitled "The Progress of Science and Useful Arts: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom" from the Fre…
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Wanted: More Nobel Bloggers!
The entry of Gary Becker into the blog world makes me wonder what other Nobel laureates should enter the blogosphere. My initial thoughts: Amartya Sen (Economi…
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Becker/Posner Forget the Golden Rule
Nobel laureate Gary Becker and legal collossus Richard Posner have now opened their blog, to much fanfare. Their first set of posts take up the issue of preem…
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Let's See--Take Experimental Flu Vaccine or Risk Flu?
The Administration-That-Couldn't-Shoot-Straight now has a new solution to the flu vaccine shortage--the importation of experimental flu vaccine from Germany…
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The New Normal? South Asian Kids
Chander Blog reader Shareen writes about a new South Asian kids magazine, Kahani: "Thanks for the link to Kahani.I hope they transition into a text that i…
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Lenovo Acquires IBM PC business
Reports indicate that "IBM will hold an 18.9 percent stake in Lenovo." So should the lead be: "IBM acquire Lenovo"? This strikes me as an a…